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GD analog with much better JPEG quality for linux

Hello,

I wonder, is there any GD analog that creates JPEG with better quality than GD? I've tried GD and even with "100" quality level GD does lower quality JPEG than Flickr (JPEGs on Flickr looks better), for example.

It's much better at everything; GDlib is a joke, in comparison. The only problem is, that there isn't any (working) extension for PHP, so to use imagemagick, you must call it over the shell. You often aren't allowed to do this on shared hosts (Although you might -- check with your host). I haven't used any of them, but both asido and wideimage looks like good libraries for simplifying the interface against imagemagick.

It's much better at everything; GDlib is a joke, in comparison. The only problem is, that there isn't any (working) extension for PHP, so to use imagemagick, you must call it over the shell. You often aren't allowed to do this on shared hosts (Although you might -- check with your host). I haven't used any of them, but both asido and wideimage looks like good libraries for simplifying the interface against imagemagick.

I wrote my own abstraction layer, based off PEAR's (horrible) library. I have the following two projects in my bookmarks, which both seems promising. I haven't tried any of them though, so I can't vouch for them.asidowideimage